We are closed for Winter Break and will return to the shop in March 2019

Yes, we are playing outside and it most likely involves blue water and white beaches!

We make custom natural edge furniture from salvaged, reclaimed, and recycled hardwood materials. With our personal collection of local hand selected and air-dried wood slabs, we will find the perfect piece for your project. Every project is personal - from the tree, to our craftsman, to you. Visit our showroom in Bend, Oregon, order online, or contact us for a custom project. We ship nationwide.

Michelle Lindblom

Michelle was born and raised in North Dakota, received her formal education from University of New Orleans and University of North Dakota. She spent 24 years sharing her love of art teaching at the college level.

Michelle's approach to the creative process is intuitive. Once she begins a piece, it becomes a visual playground of colors, textures, shapes and movement; working through each piece, letting one action promote the next. Please come down and check out Michelle's beautiful artwork today.

In honor of Small Business Saturday we are holding a one-day sale. All of our showroom pieces will be 10% off. So, come on in and find something gorgeous for yourself or that someone special in your life.

We will be open 10am to 4pm for the event this Saturday, November 26th.

Bend Open StreetsThis Sunday, Sept 18th, 12:00 - 4:00 pm

We are blocking off roads, avenues, boulevards and lanes for Bend Open Streets, an event to promote healthy, active living by opening the city’s streets for people to walk, bike and roll, while discovering the joys of active transportation in a safe, car-free environment.

The event will take place all across the Orchard District which stretches from the Pilot Butte area to highway 97. Bend's Makers District and Natural Edge fall into the district and will be actively participating in Bend Open Streets.

There will be treasure hunts, miniature golf, human foosball, a pop-up Maker's Market and many, many other events along the course. Stop by Natural Edge Furniture for Addy Mac's ice cream and free hot dogs.

Living in Bend, a place with more craft breweries per capita than really should be allowed, it is surprising that it took us so long to make a bar stool. We started tossing the idea around almost a year ago and came up with a few ideas, but then work got in the way of things.

The base can be just about any color you might desire.

We revisited the idea last fall. Intense research at bars around town, the state and in at least one South American country ensued. It was tough, demanding work but we approached it with the gusto we bring to every project.

The result of our many hours of research is, we think, a great bar stool.

The hand-sanded, bum cradling curves of the black walnut seat. It's like sitting on chocolate...yum. Actually sitting on chocolate isn't very yummy but you get the idea.

We wanted something with clean, simple lines. It had to be sturdy enough for day-to-day use, but light enough to easily move around.

We weren't looking for a behemoth with a swiveling cushioned seat and a back and arms. This was for sitting, not sleeping, which we discovered during our research, is not a good thing to do in a bar stool.

The seats can be from any of our local, salvaged hardwoods. The bases can be raw steel or powder coated to any color from matte black to eye searing orange.

The 2016 ballot for The Source Weekly's Best Of Central is out. We need your help letting folks know where to find the best furniture store in Central Oregon. Last year we came in second and this year we are aiming to be number one!

There are two ways you can vote. You can click on the link above, do a very quick registration and fill out the application online. The other option is pen and paper. Grab a copy of this week's Source Weekly, fill out the paper version, and drop it at one of the locations listed. You have until July 8th to have your voice heard.

It is your chance to not only support Natural Edge Furniture but all the other local shops and organizations that you love. There are a lot of visitors and people new to Bend that use The Source and the 'Best Of' results as a guide for shopping.

We are always looking to try new things. The complications and failures give us a good reason to swear. This month's piece, which we have nicknamed The River Table, is one such piece.

Figuring out how to inlay a 1/2" piece of organically shaped glass so that it and the wood slabs meet smoothly took a bit of time. There might have been some saucy language used at times, but we feel it was worth it.

The glass is inlayed between two book matched slabs of heavily figured maple. We also threw in a few butterflies to stabilize the ends.

The result is pretty stunning. We don't think it will be in the showroom for long.

We also recently finished a similar, but larger custom piece for a customer. There was less swearing with that one so we must be getting better at this glass thing.

We are very pleased to have Karen Ruane as Natural Edge Furniture's Spring artist. Karen is a graduate of the art program at the University of Arizona and a co-founder of The Wilds, a co-working space for artists and creatives in Bend.

Her work will be hanging through July. We will be hosting a reception for Karen in the evening on Friday, June 3rd. Feel free to come down for the reception or during our regular hours to view her wonderful pieces.

Her work will be hanging through July. We will be hosting a reception for Karen in the evening on Friday, June 3rd.

Feel free to come down for the reception or during our regular hours to view her wonderful pieces.

Orange

“Champagne and orange juice is a great drink. The orange improves the champagne. The champagne definitely improves the orange.”

– Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

OK, so that last one wasn't really about the color orange but there are surprisingly few quotes about a color that has no rhyming words. And, anyway, we kind of see the wood and base improving on each other in this piece.

A conference table built for a machinery company needs to have some heft to it. Track chain paired with black walnut did the job perfectly.

We started with a book matched pair of black walnut slabs about 10 feet long and 4 sections of track chain.

Jason, our metal man, faced a bit of a task to cut the track to the right size but the end result was worth it.

We positioned the legs close to the corners of the top so there would be more space for people seated at the ends of the table and as many people as possible could sit at the sides. The tracks are 9" wide and so would eat up a lot of the available seating space if placed further from the ends.

Sometimes a base like this can overpower the top, but in this case they have found a good balance.

On Friday, January 29th, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm, Natural Edge will be hosting a reception for Kelly Thiel, our next quarterly artist.

Originally from the Southeast, Kelly now makes her home in Bend where, in addition to being a full-time artist, she is one of the owners and managers of The Wilds, a co-working and artist studio space.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and is in many private collections. Kelly also has been featured in several magazines and books, such as The Crafts Report and 500 Figures.

Additionally, she runs workshops and teaches. In 2014, she taught at The Bascom in North Carolina, and was a Guest Artist at East Tennessee State University.

Natural Edge Furniture is very excited to have her pieces gracing our show room walls and we encourage everyone to come and take a look.

Our newest neighbor here in Bend’s Maker’s District is Cate Havstad and her business, Havstad Hat Company. Cate makes custom, handcrafted hats out of the finest fur felts. She produces them in her 32-foot airstream workshop that, as of a month ago, is parked across the street from Natural Edge.

One important part of the process is the wood hat form. Cate makes one to match each customer’s hat measurements. Typically balsa or a similar soft wood is used. We have a good supply of cottonwood that came from a tree we recovered in Bend last year. It fell over during a windstorm (We love a good windstorm!).

So, we are now making the rough hat forms for Cate and then she is doing the final shaping for each one in our workshop. We love it when we can work with other local makers and artists.

For more information about Cate and her beautiful hats click HERE. To find out more about Bend’s Maker’s District follow the link HERE.

Industrial Modern Black Walnut Foyer Table

We had some fun with black walnut burl, glass and salvaged metal.

The burl was salvaged up in Kalama Washington by a friend of the shop. In the detail photos you can see that it has metal in it. This is from power lines that the tree grew around. It's a little bit of the tree's history that we love to leave in.

The base is something we pulled out of the salvage yard. It is a section of a flail used to debark logs. It originally had chains that came through the holes. It is solid steel and very heavy. So far the base has only been sand blasted, but we are thinking to polish it.

We cut the glass to perfectly fit the shape. It is 1/2" thick and follows the curve and form of this extraordinary piece of wood.

The piece is 22" x 42" x 30.5" tall. It is currently for sale online or in our shop.